Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-20
"BUILDING OF THE HOME"

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Last of the Series on "Home and
Home Lffe's by Rev. DR.. Reed at
| Trinity M. e. Church.
| The sixth and last of the series of sermons
by Rev. DIR. Reed on s'Home and home life"
was delivered at Trinity NJ. E. church last
| evening, The text was from Psalm 6S, d:
| GOOD setteth the solitary in families
Before entering upon the discussion of the
| theme announced as the subject of the even
ing's discourse, "The building of the home"
| DR.. Reed made reference to the interest with
| which the series of sermons on home life had
| been followed and to the fact that during its
progress many words of approval had come
to him from various sources, after which he
proceeded to illustrate the influence and
power of the idea of home.
| ~ From the instructive yearning for home
manifested among all peoples and in all ages
inconsistencies is an ancient malady.
(2) From the impulse which it gives to in
dustry and effort in every direction. For
| fame men have done and suffered much; for
| power they have been willing to trample on
all things sacred or profane; for wealth they
have not SCI upled to lay down life itself; but
for the home they have done and suffered
| most of all.
| 1t is the home light, the Preside warmth,
/ that has after all shone upon all industry,
/ and this it is which to-day most potentially
stimulates it's growth and shapes its mean
| ing. Almost all that roar of trade which we
hear in our streets, the sailing of ships, the
beating of hammers, the changing of anvlls,
the humrling of looms, is caused by man in
his pursuit of his home. The men and wo-
men who, in the early hours of tomorrow,
will pour into the mills and shops, and
streets and fields of city and country to re-
commence the tasks interrupted
by the restful Sabbath, will do
this not because of love of gold, the mere re-
ward of labor, but because the necessity of
the home compels them to their tasks that
they may have some place, however humble,
which they can fondly call their home, and
to which they may resort as to safe and
pleasant retreat from the cares and tolls of
the day. So the captain who tomorrow will
sail his ship on the seas, who to-day watches
on his steamer, who is travelling to the ends
of the earth in search of trade, is, in reality,
watching and sailing and trading for the
home and the children which he hopes to
bless by his return. To be the possessor OF
a home is the great and noble ambition of
every true-hearted man and woman.
So has it ever been.
Buried Pompeii and Herculaneum row
brought faith to the light of day by the
spade of the excavator, reveal to us phases
of home life marvellously like our own
Down to period fifty years ago the ruins,
| to which men resortsd to learn that from
them they might read the lessons of the
past, were those of gigantic structure, as the
pyramids, temples, theaters, aqueducts, ca
pable by reason of their vastness of resisting
the ravages of time. The homes of the
people, built of light materials, had appar-
emily persisted, leaving the great past to
whisper only of the palaces of kings, the
temples of the gods; but when that volcano
buried suddenly two cities. it embalmed in
its soft ashes the homes of the multitudes,
and bade them sleep two thousand years, and
then rise up and tell us what a beautiful and
powerful thing the home of man has been in
all his civilized career. The marble floors
that have been brought to light, the painted
and frescoed walls of the houses,
the playthings for the children,
the lamps, the ornamented glass, the
polished mirrors, the baths and touches
tell how busy were the fathers, mothers, hus-
bands, wives and daughters of that far off
time in toiling to make and decorate and pre-
serve the domestic roof. and if these remains
could speak they would tell us that even in
that distant day the influence of the home
was mightier, even to-day, than the school,
the church or the forum.
The speaker now remarked that the
hearts love and clinging to the hearthstone
is the same. The thought of home may be
called the thought of the world
He then spoke of the inestima-
BILE educational value of the well Or
dered home. It was also the SEM
mary of the affections. It should be made
the happiest, brightest spot on earth. Would
| to God it were such in all cases, but alas, it
| is not. The preacher now spoke of the duties
and responsibilities of the head OF the home.
To him home should be arefuge. The moth
er's share in the burdens was next spoken of,
and in conclusion the speaker powerfully il
| Illustrated the Importance, the value, the pow
| er of the well ordered Christian home for
| right civilization, for the elevation and hap
piness of the world.